of teaching him astronomy, quite to the amusement LITTLE 

 of the father and mother. JOURNEYS 



Fanny Burney now comes in with a little flung-off 

 nebulae to the effect that " Herschel is quite the happiest 

 man in the kingdom." 



There is a most charming little biography of Caroline 

 Herschel, written by the wife of Sir John Herschel, 

 wherein some very gentle foibles are laid bare, and 

 where at the same time tribute is paid to a great and 

 beautiful spirit. 



The idea that Caroline was not going to live long after 

 the marriage of her brother, was "greatly exagger- 

 ated " she lived to be ninety-eight, a century lacking 

 two years ! Her mind was bright to the last when 

 ninety she sang at a concert given for the benefit of an 

 old ladies' home. At ninety-six she danced a minuet 

 with the King of Prussia, and requested that worthy 

 not to introduce her as " the woman astronomer, be- 

 cause, you know, I was only the assistant of my 

 brother!" 



William Herschel died in his eighty-fourth year, with 

 his fame at full, honored, respected, beloved. 

 Sir John Herschel, his son, was worthy to be called 

 the son of his father. He "was an active worker in the 

 field of science. A strong, yet gentle man, with no 

 jealousy nor whim in his nature. " His life was full of 

 the docility of a sage and the innocence of a child." 

 He died at Collingwood, May 11, 1871, and his dust 

 rests in Westminster Abbey close beside the grave of 

 England's most famous scholar, Sir Isaac Newton. 



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